The Senate is supposed to go back in session shortly. Senator Paul’s ability to continue to hold things up expires in a bit. He could technically push this to 3 AM EST, but who knows how far he’ll go. Once he runs out of Senate rules cover, they should be able to pass the two year Senate budget deal. Depending on Senator Paul this should occur sometime between 1 and 3 AM EST. There is a cloture vote scheduled for 1 AM EST.

Members of the House have been notified to prepare for a vote between 3 and 6 AM EST. Provided Speaker Ryan can wrangle the votes, or get Congresswoman Pelosi to provide them from the Democratic Caucus, the House should pass the Senate bill sometime later this morning and the government shutdown should be brief. Given what we’ve seen of majority Republican control of both chambers of Congress, however, anything could happen. So stay tuned!

Provided Speaker Ryan can wrangle the votes, or get Congresswoman Pelosi to provide them from the Democratic Caucus, the House should pass the Senate bill sometime later this morning and the government shutdown should be brief.

@Corner Stone: I’m still trying to figure out how we get Republicans to vote for letting brown people stay in the country when they clearly don’t want to do so. This seems difficult when we can’t use the shutdown as an effective threat.

Well, somebody has got to stand up for all those Tea Party defectives – er, patriots. 2020 isn’t that far off. Of course, that assumes they might remember Aqua Buddha’s principled stand in 2018, which isn’t likely. Their attention span seems to be somewhat limited.